How Tim_C started their web page design journey

Company name

Famous Californian high-end and trendy Italian eatery and cuisine

Overview

well known and exciting trendy, high-end, contemporary, leading edge Italian restaurant on beautiful coast of California needs a new web site design to match the restaurant. This restaurant has an exciting up and coming Chef and you can be the designer behind this restaurant that will have future high end sister restaurants.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Couples looking to be impressed by a culinary treasure. The food and dishes and atmosphere with the view of the beach in a gorgeous restaurant needs a web site to match.

Requirements

Want this page to be the home page - landing page. Will have a logo in upper left. Dont have the logo yet but the colors of dark red and black match the 009.jpg attached. While these are the colors of the logo, we don't necessarily want a dark web site. It could just be the usage of these colors and use of white and maybe gradients of light gray/silver - just a suggestion as we must have a clean, contemporary web design that is visually appealing but might be the 'less is more' style.

Want a contemporary font used as well. Certainly on the menus and headers. Maybe increased letter spacing to add character?

need a horizontal menu with one displaying a dropdown menu design.

Attached are many great pics. Will want a main pic to show off the beautiful pic of the restaurant. You can try a different pic but we like dsc0087.jpg.
Maybe this pic is a rotator so you can show 3 buttons .

There also need to be smaller callouts / sections (probably below main pic?) that have a section for 1) Il Teatro - which is a special private dining room (can use a separate smaller pic here) and 2) sustainability - something of a farm or close up of vegetables in a farm setting.

Will want to also include a OpenTable and Facebook icon links. footer.

Some text is attached but can use lorem ipsum if necessary.

And all this needs to be above the fold. so might have to down size some elements.

Number of pages

1

Page descriptions

For colors: can try using colors seen from the pics attached from restaurant. the stone walls, the copper cooking pots, the tables or chairs, any inspiration you get. But the restaurant does have some nice textures like the stone, copper, granite that might work in part.

Maybe sparign use of gradients, overlays, etc. Not sure - since we are planning on keeping it simple, for it to be sensual and contemporary, still needs little design details that will make it very attractive.

I put rest in requirements section.

Example websites

Be creative. again simple, stylish, sensual, but not crowded. Still a bit on the 'less is more' camp.